Paralympics Biathlon. The sport of cross country skiing is an aerobic workout hard. Step into the boots to slip the boots into bindings and ski out. Ahhh. It seems so easy to do.
In real life, after a few slides and moves the heart rate increased, the lungs are trying desperately need oxygen at a time, start to produce sweat. Now try to keep this on a few miles with a rifle on his back 7 pounds. Oh, did I mention that you must stop,occasionally flop on his belly, bring your gun around, to see a small target, test hours, shaking his body control, as with a heart that now beats in his chest and press the audience engaged. This is the biathlon.
The sport was introduced successfully in 1988 Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria with great.
The categories are the same for both cross-country skiing and biathlon.
Paralympics Biathlon combines cross-country athletesClay pigeon shooting.
Paralympic skier shoot from the prone position differs from biathlon skiers at the Olympics.
Athletes ski times and 2.5 km long loop. Each cycle requires the skier to stop twice and removed five shots at a target with five metal plates 10 meters. The Bulls Eye is only 15 mm, about half inch in diameter. The penalty for a miss, the skier is 150 meters per cycle of losing skiing.
Which of the blind? How canthey compete?
In 2002, in Salt Lake biathlon Paralympic Games a wonderful new device has been successfully introduced. Protecting the blind can hear different sounds when the gun is pointing right at the target Bulls Eye.
In the case of long-distance athletes to stop the cycle five times to four times per cycle to go shoot. For each missed a penalty minutes added to time skiers.
The biathlon race with a staggered start of 30 seconds andhandicap system which is basically what is used to compensate the skiers. The field of time added to the skiers and calibrates the lowest time wins.
When the sport began to disabled athletes were usually wounded service personnel.
Powerful military rifles have been used, but in 1978 the guns were standardized and the.22 caliber rifle was the standard. Today's biathlon rifles are strange. Everyone seems different. L 'Standard is only she must have a minimum weight of 7.7 pounds.
various dishes are adapted for disabled athletes from under them. essentially carried the gun on your back with a strap that allows quick release. The gun must maintain a flip cover over the muzzle of snow. There is a belt of stability, the shooter used to stabilize the weapon during aiming and shooting.
Regulation.22 gun ammunition clips holding five caliber bullets.Savings in the stock market for quick and easy. Firearms should be shot. For relay races, the athlete saved three more rounds in rifle stock, if necessary.
The targets hit are the round metal disks. When doing a rotation different colored discs, a hit show of success. The computer connected to maintain the target score electronically.
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